I’ve been told you’re a triple threat in theatre: singer, dancer and actor. Tell me how you got started with it all.

I’ve been dancing since I was three, and I’ve always been just a dancer so I didn’t really do a lot of musical theatre. Then, for my Grade 12 year, I moved to Vancouver to dance, but ended up getting into more acting and singing. Then I got signed with an acting agency, which was a big deal.

You moved all the way from the west coast of Canada to come to Edmonton. Let me guess, you did it for our balmy winter weather?

Umm...No. After winning a bursary award during a competition in the states, and getting to provincials for a voice competition, in addition to being signed with an acting agency, I decided that I really loved musical theatre and that it was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. So, I came here for MacEwan which has a great Musical Theatre program.

What’s it like being on a completely arts-based campus?

It’s fantastic! I was quite the loser in high school... Seriously, I’m not even joking. I had no friends...I just didn’t care! All I wanted to focus on was dance anyway. So when I got here I was like “Oh my god, I’m not weird anymore. This is the norm here! Everyone’s like me!” It was really the first time I felt like I fit in at a school.

Coming in to your second year, what was your best memory of your first year?

In my first year, I got to be in a second year show, which was really exciting. It was a show by local playwright Stewart Lemoine and it was so fun! I got to be the Deus ex Machina, which is pretty much the heavenly being that solves the play. Everything is going badly in the play and then: BAM! I show up and I’m like “What up guys? I’m going to solve the play for you so that everyone’s happy!”

I’ll just assume that the highlight of your second year is being in Profile Magazine... BAM!